Astro-DISC: Publications & Posters

PAPERS

• Indexing and Fast Near-Matching of Billions of Astronomical Objects. Bin Fu, Eugene Fink, Garth Gibson and Jaime Carbonell. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Interfaces and Architecture for Scientific Data Storage, 2012 (IASDS12). September 24, 2012, Beijing, China.
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• Exact and Approximate Computation of a Histogram of Pairwise Distances between Astronomical Objects. Bin Fu, Eugene Fink, Garth Gibson and Jaime Carbonell. First Workshop on High Performance Computing in Astronomy (AstroHPC 2012), held in conjunction with the 21st International ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC 2012), June 18 or 19, 2012, Delft, the Netherlands.
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• Recipes for Baking Black Forest Databases: Building and Querying Black Hole Merger Trees from Cosmological Simulations. Julio Lopez, Colin Degraf, Tiziana DiMatteo, Bin Fu, Eugene Fink, and Garth Gibson. Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Scientific and Statistical Database Management Conference (SSDBM 2011), 20-22 July 2011.
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• Recipes for Baking Black Forest Databases: Building and Querying Black Hole Merger Trees from Cosmological Simulations. Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-11-104. April 2011.
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• DiscFinder: A data-intensive scalable cluster finder for astrophysics. Bin Fu, Kai Ren, Julio López, Eugene Fink, and Garth Gibson. In Proceedings of the ACM International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC), Chicago, IL. June, 2010.
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  An extended version is available as Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Data Lab Technical Report CMU-PDL-10-104.
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POSTERS

• DISC-Holes: Data Models and Algorithms for Black Hole Datasets. Julio Lopez, Colin Degraf, Tiziana DiMatteo, Bin Fu, Eugene Fink, and Garth Gibson. Poster at the Thirteenth Annual Visit Day of the Parallel Data Laboratory, 2011. PDF
  
  
• DISC-Quasars: Identification of Distant Quasars in Sky Surveys. Bin Fu, Sangjae Yoo, Gor Nilanon, Eugene Fink, Julio Lopez, and Garth Gibson. Poster at the Seventeenth Annual Workshop and Retreat of the Parallel Data Laboratory, 2010. PDF
  
  
• DISC-Finder: A Distributed Algorithm for Identifying Galaxy Clusters. Bin Fu, Kai Ren, Julio Lopez, Eugene Fink, Garth Gibson. Poster at the 12th Annual Visit Day of the Parallel Data Laboratory, 2010. PDF
  
  
• DISC-Distances: Analyzing the Distribution of Distances Between Galaxies. Bin Fu, Eugene Fink, Julio Lopez, Christos Faloutsos, Garth Gibson. Poster at the 12th Annual Visit Day of the Parallel Data Laboratory, 2010. PDF
  
  
• DISC-SkyMap: Indexing and Retrieval of Celestial Objects. Bin Fu, Tarush Aggarwal, Eugene Fink, Garth Gibson. Poster at the 12th Annual Visit Day of the Parallel Data Laboratory, 2010. PDF
  
  
• Astro-DISC: Data-intensive Analytics for Astrophysics. Julio López, Bin Fu, Eugene Fink, Swapnil Patil, Wittawat Tantisiriroj, Milo Polte, Lin Xiao, Vijay Vasudavan, Garth Gibson. Poster at the Sixteenth Annual Workshop and Retreat of the Parallel Data Laboratory, 2009. PDF
  
  
• Astronomy Applications of Map-reduce: A Distributed Friends-of-friends Algorithm. Bin Fu, Eugene Fink, Julio López. Poster at the Sixteenth Annual Workshop and Retreat of the Parallel Data Laboratory, 2009. PDF
  
  
• Scalable Spatial Indexing for Data-intensive Science Applications. Julio Lopez, Bin Fu, Eugene Fink, Garth Gibson. Poster at the Sixteenth Annual Workshop and Retreat of the Parallel Data Laboratory, 2009. PDF